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حَكَكٌ حك حكك حكة A wearing away at the edges in a beast's hoof. (K, * TA.) -A2- A gait in which is commotion, like the gait of a short woman who moves about her shoulder-joints. (Ibn-'Abbád, L, K.) -A3- Soft, or uncompact, white stones: (S:) or a kind of white stone, like marble, (K, TA,) more soft, or uncompact, than marble, but harder than gypsum: n. un. with ة: (TA:) or, with ة, ground in which are soft, or uncompact, stones, like marble: (ISh, TA:) or, accord. to ADk, ↓ حُكَكَاتٌ , with damm, and then fet-h, signifies ground in which are white stones, resembling أَقِط, that break into many pieces; and such is only in low land, (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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